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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In this early stage, the metaverse is being envisioned and portrayed as an online reality that we humans enter and experience as avatars through a VR headset, similar to the Oasis experience in the movie Ready Player One. In the metaverse today, AR and VR are blending to become one simultaneous user experience. Virtual Reality (VR).

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Self-Identification and Status Updates: Personal Entrypoints to Museum Experiences

Museum 2.0

Institutions and websites that use profiles set different constraints to support particular kinds of profiles to fit the overall context of their services. At the Brooklyn Museum, you are invited to pick a digital avatar (image) from their collection to represent you. Some allow you to write your life story.

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